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November 29, 2007

Worth every penny

Or, not:

Scotland has replaced its airport signs proclaiming the country to be "the best small country in the world" with a new slogan: "Welcome to Scotland."

The new slogan, which was revealed Tuesday after six months of development and $250,000 spent on the project, is also printed on the posters in Gaelic as "Failte gu Alba," The Times of London reported Wednesday.

Posted by Karol at November 29, 2007 03:47 AM | TrackBack
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Six months' development. Six months. For "Welcome to Scotland."

At least there wasn't an Arabic translation.

Posted by: michael parker at November 29, 2007 09:16 AM

don't they use the english pound (sterling)?

If so.. I think $250,000 American is really only about 3 pounds nowadays.

Posted by: E5 at November 29, 2007 09:20 AM

And here I thought that Scots were frugal.

Posted by: Hubbard at November 29, 2007 09:30 AM

It's hard to believe that this is the same place that produced David Hume and Adam Smith.

Posted by: Gerard at November 29, 2007 09:45 AM

Ther reason for the change was to stop confusing Americans who don't know Scotland is a country and think its somewhere in England :-)

Donald Trump is not welcome here though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7118105.stm

Posted by: Graeme at November 30, 2007 03:14 AM
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